[AnotherUnixGeek]

I'd sure like the Tea Party to take a stand on the issue of homosexual marriage and homo adoption.

I sure wouldn't. The Tea Party is a response to the federal government's unrestrained growth and fiscal irresponsibility. This is a huge threat to our personal freedom and liberty that the GOP clearly is neither capable of or willing to deal with. Let the Tea Party stay focused on this issue - there's no need to hitch social issues onto the Tea Party bandwagon.

[dayglored]

> The Tea Party is a response to the federal government's unrestrained growth and fiscal irresponsibility. This is a huge threat to our personal freedom and liberty that the GOP clearly is neither capable of or willing to deal with. Let the Tea Party stay focused on this issue - there's no need to hitch social issues onto the Tea Party bandwagon.

Ah, but you see, those of either left or right, who wish to use the power of the federal government to advance their own social agenda, will hitch their issues onto whatever train happens to have momentum at that time.

I find it dismaying that so many conservatives are willing to throw away their freedom (and mine), and increase the power of the federal government over their own lives (and mine), simply because in one instance it happens to be a position they agree with. It is a very short-sighted attitude, and one that bites more often than it supports.

If the Tea Party branches out into social issues, it will become irrelevant and die. Guaranteed.

[little jeremiah]

You’re a social liberal and always stand up for perversion and immorality.

That’s the way to ruination and leftist tyranny.

[wku man]

The Tea Party needs to be more than just a Libertarian Party by another name. It's about more than just fiscal irresponsibility and overbearing taxation...for proof, just look at all the Gadsden flags at any and every Tea Party.

Fiscal issues aren't the only things driving us hell for leather down the road to ruin. Social issues, like homo marriage and adoption, will tear us apart as surely as the national debt. It may take a little longer, because it takes more guts to oppose them than it does Cap and Tax, Commiecare, etc. I hope Tea Partiers across the nation have the guts for that fight, because it's coming, if and when we get our fiscal house in order.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!